Richard Wilson is founder of Wilson Holding Company and the CEO of The Miami Family Office, a single family office with $500M in assets, he runs the largest family office association globally, and is a bestselling author of The Single Family Office Book.

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After a Strong 2013, Investors are Hungry for Hedge Funds

An increase from 10.1 percent in 2012 and a loss of nearly 2 percent
in 2011, according to Preqin, a provider of data and analysis on the
alternative assets industry, hedge funds gained 11.1 percent in 2013.

Investors
were largely satisfied with the performance. Eighty-four percent of
investors interviewed for the 2014 Preqin Global Hedge Fund Report said
their returns expectations had been met or exceeded in 2013.

Following are some of the report’s key findings:

21
percent of investors said returns had exceeded their expectations, the
highest level since Preqin started collecting the data in 2008;

Top-quartile funds accumulated returns of nearly 30 percent;

Asia/Pacific-focused
funds gained 16.7 percent in 2013, followed by North American funds, up
16.6 percent, and European funds, up 13.6 percent;

Relative
value funds made gains of 7.1 percent in 2013, and had the lowest
three-year volatility of any hedge fund strategy at 1.6 percent;

Emerging
market funds performed poorly — up 5.9 percent — compared with
counterparts that targeted global and developed markets and in contrast
to 2012, when they gained 12.6 percent;

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